ANOTHER BIG RAILROAD DEAL Pepnsylvania Said to Have Gotten West Virginia Central, THE PRICE PAID IS $17,000,000. Thus the Goulds Would Be Shot From East ern Outiet— Rivals Have Been Bidding President Cassatt [s Stated to Have Clinched Victory By Offering $7,000,000 More Than His Competitors. Parkersburg, W. Va. (Special.)—The West Virginia Central and Railroad for to part through line to the seaboard. interests was have been The Pennsylvania Railroad now has every road and every coal field in this State. lost their grip Davis. clinched ex-Senator Henry G. all negotiations were by the the West Virginia Central for $17,000, 000. The Elkins-Davis combine and in glove with the Goulds, who be- sale of the road. It was the Gould scheme to put a trunk line through West Virginia by way of the Little Kanawha route from tidewater to the Great Lakes, combining in Ohio with the Wabash sys- teh. The fact that the Elkins-Davis combination bought 50,000 acres of Pitts burg ‘coal land in the counties of the Lit tle Kanawha Valley lent color to reports of its alliance with the Little Kanawha Company and the interests behind it in the background. It was generally under- stood that the Goulds relied upon Messrs. Elkins and Davis for the con- summation of their plans. But the Pennsylvania, through Presi- dent A. J. Cassatt, outwitted the New York magnates and offered for the West Virginia Central $7,000,000 more than the Goulds had arranged to pay. Mr. Elkins jumped at the opportumty. Thus the Pennsylvania has blocked the Ge at a time when they most expected cess in their outlet to the seaboard The West Virginia Central is one of the greatest coal roads, considered from the tonnage point of view, in the country. Along its main line from ( to Keyser, Elkins and its br Davis-Elkins combination owns and erates 15,000 acres of coal lands. BURNED WITH RED-HOT IRON. A Crazy Half Breed Indian Mutilates His Wife io a Horrible Maaaoer. Mich. breed Sault Ste. Marie, Sp Joseph Buz went on a rampage at Garden enaw, a half- Canadian village, here, and as Buzenaw became crazy terrorizing the inhabitants of the vi went to home, whe Ie gave wife a brutal pounding side of her face with a re The woman crawled ou her hands and the y 1 h 3 ICT NCad lage his his knees, and Bu i, where he ard, on followed her to tempted to chop axe The woman's sister-in interfered. but the crazy wife a. glancing blow with ning her. He was taken locked up, but Then he returned to the an attempt to cut his wife’ a knife. Buzenaw finally escaped across the river to United States territory f him. broke dos Sugar al An arme THREE TRAINS IN A WRECK Mail Collided With Freight and Another Freight Crashed Into Them. Johnstown, Pa, of a wrong signal at Nineveh tower, a (Special) .—Because express train ran into a slow ahead five miles west of this city, and a few minutes later a west-bound freight crashed into the wreck, causing the death of four persons and the serious injury of at least five others. The wreck occurred about 10 PP. M The passenger train got a “clear block” at the tower, and, running ahead at full freight, wrecking the engine and two passenger cars and the cab and two cars of the freight. almost immediately piled into the debris, the river. ; The injured, it is thought, will recov- er. The wreck occurred on a sharp could not stop after coming in sight of freight ran in before a flagman could be sent forward. Beaten Till He Was Insane. Chicago, (Special). —A coroner's jury listened to evidence showing that a some- what remarkable series of occurrences led to the death of Frank J. Schell here. The jury returned a report show- ing that Schell had been held up by two highwaymen and beaten so severely that he was rendered temporarily insane. While in this condition he walked some distance to the river and jumped or fell in. Schell and his brother recently came into possession of a $100,000 estate. The footpads stole his overcoat, which is said to have contained valuable papers pertaining to the estate. a Ex-Premier of Hawali Weds. San Francisco, (Special), — Samuel Parker, formerly Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hawaii, has been married to Mrs. Abigail Campbell, of San Jose, widow of the millionaire plant- er, James Campbell, the engagement of whose daughter Abbie to Prince Ka- wananakoa was recently announced. wedding was private, the ceremony performed at the Occidental Ho- y Superior Court Judge Hubbard. / marriage was followed by a dinner. Domestic. A lien on the Detroit and was filed in the register of deeds office York contractor. wheelman, 1als, has Frank Lentz, the American who was killed by Turkish been paid $7.500 damages Upon the recommendation of the Cu Onc pardoned 27 prisoners, now confined various jails on the island. The officers of the at Oakland, Cal, for against the mutinous crew. Actor Melbourne McDowell signed a ficials was drugged at the time tied in Baltimore The St. Paul Trust Company, capital ec Was mar- chief cause is a recent supreme company judgment for $100,000 in the DD. Strong, which had been in charge of the company The circuit court of Toledo, Ohio, af Mrs judgment of $5,400 against the estate of the late President Hayes. Mrs. Smith was bitten by dog that belonged to Mr. Hayes Four robbers entered the town of St 3 1 § Bank of Camden lhe explosion aro: zens and a pitched battle with Point wit} 3 15641 The Chicago Northwestern Univ preposes to abandon the wor ’ cal department, and James |} a trustee of the university, it 15 IMposs to ible np MAK fice emebzzlem d to begin 1 for Rat m of trial ICVS A t ings and Banking ( and tage of the fo day 5 lernard Michael found in his of with his estate bu John G. The “argo Express Company has accounts arc ompany land. the bank official notice 1 aged m ot He x been miss: Foreign. Nnoero TR fighted a collision be + and the foreign troops » shooting of a student named in a duel Emperor against the military a German officer the appears by aroused dueling It that court of was the best shot in his regiment, and cieties had proposed sa- bers General Riera and other revolution- ists are reported to have landed on Ven The German officials have handed which Germany's claims against tinue unconfirmed. John Murray, who recently surren- have been concentrated and the city to prevent trouble The Count de Turenne, of the French diplomatic service, has suggested a basis for the settlement of the South African war, in nobleman, committed suicide in a rail road carriage near London, The Dowager again showing anti-foreign tendencies. foreign army corps. press and Yung Lu fear the foreign offi- arrival in Pekin. A philanthropist in London has placed $1,000,000 at the disposal of King Ed- ward for a sanitarium for consumtives, Syrian officials were sharply rebuked by the Ottoman government for arresting naturalized American citizens. Financial The deposits of Erie Telephone stock under the reorganization plan are very large. ; The New York Subtreasury statement shows the banks have gained $1,406,000 since December 27. : Mr. Post, of National Sugar, denies the rumor that his sompahy has ac- quired sugar plantations in Cuba. Application hae heen made to the New York Stock Exchange to list $3,200,000 additional capital stock of the Rutland Railroad Company. MR CARNEGIE'S SPLENDID GIFT Formal !ncorporstion of the Institution in Washingion, NO CONGRESS!ONAL INTERFERENCE. Mr. Carmegic Will Not Give the Ten Mil lions to the Government, as Was Originally Intended, But to a Corporation Selected by Himself, Which Met and Adopted Artic cles of lacorporation. Washington, D. C { Special) first step toward accepting Mr. Andrew of to the offer United States : ment fund for the promotion of higher Carn £10.000,000 egice’ Government as an endow- education was tal the District of Columbia for the Car ere filed with of the negie lhe incorporators are! John Hay, Secretary of State Edward D. White, Justice United States Supreme Court of the the Johns Hopkins University ). Walcott, superintendent of ological Survey S. Billings, ex-Sur urg { Commissioner of fix the institution as the ' and show that 1 ai term ‘tor promotion study the power to estate voy sh general Of act and other property, nd special and { ai FIGHT WITH BANK BURGLARS Building Surrounded by Armed Men, Bat Three Robbers Escape. n Point dynamite Pp ank, an . 4 YV. a4 i 3 local mer a country dganc the ex plos the | chant ant, refur the ! 1 wecurred Hastily a and summoning a posse surrounded the bank opened fire on the robbers After a fusilade lasting several min- utes, int which one of the robbers was shot in the shoulder, bandits re- treated from the bank, ran to the rail- road tracks and escaped on a hand car They secured no booty. Several armed 2 : passed passcq frit errors shotguns they the L43C A FLUID TO PETRIFY THE DEAD. Bodies lodefinitely. Memphis, Tenn. (Special. )—The Mem- phis Medical College has for balming fluid declared by the inventor to be superior to the embalming prepa- ration used by the Egyptians The infusion, it 15 said, petrifies the The shriveling that was insep- arable from the Egyptian embalming is absent. The principal experiment up to this time has been upon the body of a dog, It ap- rigid, but in a natural pose, There is no trace symptom of decay Protocol Not Yet Signed. Santiago de Chili, (By Cable) — Chilian minister of foreign affairs, and Senor Portela, the Argentina minister to Chili, and has asked the Chilian govern- ment for further explanations. AR AH bt le A Double Tragedy. Grafton, W. Va, (Special) ~News reached here that Samuel Carothers, who came here, accompanied by his 3- year-old girl, from Whitman, Nebraska, to visit his mother, 10 miles north of this place, had, shortly after arriving at his destination, deliberately shot and killed his little girl and then blown his own brains out. His wife is in a hospital in South Dakota. [It is supposed that domestic trouble was the cause of the tragedy. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Nation of Coffee Drinkers. The coffee importations of the United States will in the calendar vear 1001 be the largest in the history of the coun try's import trade. Eleven months’ figures of the Treasury bureau of statistics show that these im portations amounted to 067,000,585 pounds, against 707,400,152 in the corre sponding months of 1000, B17,223877 in the corresponding months of 1899, 744+ 910,179 in the corresponding months of 1808, 720,110,006 in the same months of 1897 and 567,020,817 in the 11 months of 1806, These figures indicate not only that the coffee importations of 1901 will be larger than those of any preceding year, but The value of these about 1,000,000,000 pounds, imports will reach any preceding year, the cost will be les than the average during the years from 1800 to 1897, when the cost per pound far the coffee impor the United States In the 11 months ended with November these im ports amounted to 762,148,514 pounds, while the next quantity came from other American countries, 01,207,714 America, 04,554,400; Brazil furnishes, of course, by Central pounds ; Mexico, 21,504,432. In Need of More Room. Tt year wa minor subjects departments ie first Cabinet meeting of to i relati among hie 1s ated t ve 1 ¥ t dey hem crowded condition of some ings and War evident and some discussion of the n sity for a building. . It gested tha Department. o State Depa could be Lack of Navy Departments is especially there was was sug f Justice * a and {sage rem half Yield of Gold and Silver. ferrin ne ¢ ren est uced is show y have been of the val i $80.3 [he silver having a commer The comnage oximately $77 Fi pro duced was gf cial value of value of the 000,000 Clemency for Soldiers. The army regulations have been amended so as to provide that the pow er to pardon or mitigate punishment im- posed by a court-martial vested in the authority which confirms the proceed ings. or the coresponding authority un- der whose jurisdiction the sentence is being exectited, extends only to the us executed portions of a sentence An aphcation for clemency in the case of a prisoner sentenced to confine ment In a penitentiary must be forward tion of the President. General Miles being vested in military commanders, can only be exercised by the President. At the King's Coronation. It is understood that a way may be found by which two saval officers of high rank will take part in the corona- The present indications are that the President will select a civilian represent- and one officer of the navy to accompany this civilian. Quite apart from this, the navy will be represented by a squadron in command ment will be to place two naval officers of high rank in service in connection His Visit to Charleston. « Exposition in February. The President the members of the Cabinet and some of the Cabinet ladies, They will leave here probably on February 10 arriving in Charleston the following day. Capital News in General. Rear Admiral Schley called ™ the White House by appointment and spent nearly an hour in conference with the President. The Admiral refused to dis- cuss the conversation, sayi that it was of a personal character. Presi- dent also declined to intimate the nature of the conference. The Pacific Coast members of Con- gress have agreed upon a Chinese exclu: sion bill. It is drawn so as to absolute prevent Chinese from coming to this country, save officials and s¢ who already are here. GENERAL BELL'S Warfare Until Insurrection Is Subdued. Rigorous CONDITIONS ARE UNSATISFACTORY. The Arrests of Members of the Rich Lopez Family and of Members of Religious Cor- porations Known to Be Instigators Insurrections Are Havisg a Good Effect Driving Filipinos in All Directions. Manlia, Bell is | paign { By Cable) Frank- (yen J lin : { avialable columns under the command of Colone Wint lent work, and dri all are fleeir the nati valuable ; rifles and Daugherty ving the Filipinos f the latter province, directions. A number « : : ig to 1has where Ve lary are rendering “4 . y = 1 SStance in capturing men and y ie § recate 5 employed by i General Bell savs that thes nuymerons opport fluence, as thes wates have had their been given passes lines almost for it has been after- often only went of General Bell wis now 1s {to use imn- purpose y completels = Hamel i) The a One Lope: ther arrest TO PRODUCE ITS OWN COAL. Stee! Corporation Plapts Consome 3,500,000 Tons a Year. Pittsburg, Pi MINISTER BURNED TO DEATH Daughter Cremated and Son Injured in the Burning of Their Home. ny, Conn. { Sey : w retire i aged Bo years Peck, 318 years old, ind his 1} andsome h tead on the Bethany o death in a fire which destroyed their Oc t I turnpike I'he house was wrapg flames when awoke at clock His shouts aroused Charles Peck, who part smoke, made his way to the roof and jumped. seyerely injur- ing himself. It was impossible to rescue the other of the house, which was reduced ashes in less than an hour Mr. Peck was active in the, Methodist ministry for many years, but retired 20 years ago. ed a neighbor 4 D ly overcome by mmates $ 10 Big Deal in Coal Land. { Clarksburg, W. Va. (Special) —A 4.000-acre coal tract in the Wallace dis- trict, Harrison county, W. Va, on the Short Line Railroad, is about tb change hands. James R. Baines, of Uniontown, Pa. is making the sale, the purchasers being identified with the J. P. Morgan syndicate, of New York. The grice to be aid is in the neighborhood ff $400.000 he deeds are being prepared and the transfer will be made in a few days, The tract will be developed on an ex- tensive scale Regained Consciondoess. Benton Harbor, Mich, (Special) Camille, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs, George Chamberlain, 9 years old, was believed to have died at Hartford, a sta- After being in its coffin for two days, the child came to conscionsness 30 ming. the friends here were notified that there will be no funeral, Chamberlain is a druggist at Hartford. The child has not fully regained consgiousness; she cannot see and will prob i Charlotte, N. C. (Special. )-~A local freight train and a work train collided at Holtsberg, on the Southern Railway, a bad smash-up being, the result. Two deadhead engines and a number of cars were derailed. Firetnan R. Harrison was badly injured and was sent to a hospital in Salisbury, a ———— aa. si Engineer. Death of an Santiago de ili, (By Cable). — h, a well-known $ Richard Goldshorgu, American died here. engined 1 ha py, ped di ———— TWO KILLED, MANY INJURED Engine and Five Cars cf Passenger Train Leave Track (:lencoe were entirely de by non troy 1 ‘ t my ne irucks and hurried wath Dre 1.4 1 Claybrook and Seven men were brought to the hos are « severe pital t umber ere nig well wer ng well were sdale, Pa the wreck ing or not CoN down 2 the en track the track ‘ irom $:eard Yiinaers driven WIrecKe the opened Shot By Discharged Employe. fie ic 1 n aus ngs { Spec World's Record Rain Fall { 11 { » From y inches hroughout heavy rams irict ia mn reported, there were cles: wy } - - » < occurred, but there was no Coliision of Two Freights, Atlanta, Ga. (Special) —As the re f a head-on collision between two trains of the Southern Railway, near Rex, Ga.. 14 miles from this place. three of the trams’ crews were killed and a number of freight cars destroyed The two trains met on a sharp the derailed cars catching fire one of the two trains, Burglars Used Five Charges Bethany. Ill, (Special). —Four men residents, who were aroused by the ex- plosion and began shooting. The rob. bers were at work two hours and fired five charges of nitroglycerin before the residents got out. Anarchist Plots in Spa's. Madrid, (By Cable). —The police have discovered traces of anarchist plots in the towns of Jerez de la Frontera, Alcala de Jes Gazules and Arcas de la Frontera, in the Province of Cadiz Forty-nine arrests were made and the prisoners conveyed fo Barcelona, where they will be tried by the military courts. . Party Ended in Fight. Augusta, Ga., (Special). ~-Three peo- ple were killed and two wounded at Robbins, N. C, in a fight which occurred during a party given at the residence of Jesse Griffin. participants in the fight were White people and well known in this part of the country. AAAI SSB 5M To Christisn Kaiser's Boat, . Miss Alice Roosevelt, the eldest daughter of President Roosevelt, will christen the German Kaiser's new ht vow building at Staten Island, N Y. This announcement was made at the White House. The Kaiser's invitation to iss Roosevelt was exte through Dr. von Holleben, the German ambas- sador to the United States, The. STE of Nothers ta Msn. will hold its sixth al rao] ; Washington from February 25 to,
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